Success Stories Of High Achieving Women hosted by Kara Flowers Interested in being a guest on the show? Learn more and apply here: https://karaflowers.com/podcast
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Connect with the healing wisdom of Nature. In the Plant Spirit Podcast, we explore how to deepen in relationship with Nature consciousness through topics and modalities including: plant spirit herbalism, flower essences, the interconnected web of life, plant spirit medicine, the multidimensional nature of reality, plant communication, plant allies, sacred geometry, mysticism and abundance in Nature, the plant path as a spiritual path of awakening, and how plants and Nature are supporting the ...
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Get ready to experience the ALL NEW WAY to thrive throughout your engagement by embracing who you are, prioritizing what you value, and ultimately designing an unforgettable wedding celebration of your dreams! Welcome to the WEDDING PLANNING PODCAST, where we say “NO” to the $72 billion dollar wedding industry, and we say “YES” to a more joyful engagement season where your mindset, values & wedding strategy are all in perfect alignment with YOU. Ready to get started?
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Be inspired by women over 50 who are living their lives passionately, creatively and often, unconventionally!
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Finding Cupid Radio is a modern day guide to surviving the dating world and life in general. Hosted by David Cruz, Author of the blog Finding Cupid, David and his guest?€™s help you navigate through the slips and spills of love, dating and relationships. The show also explores how to be a better person in life regardless of relationship status. Imagine if Oprah and Patti Stanger had a baby?€¦ it would be David! Every week, Finding Cupid interviews celebrity guests, singers, authors and frien ...
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Follow Up Wedding Q&A | "Is This a Crazy Idea?"
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Happy Friday, and welcome to a BONUS Q&A follow up show to this week's feature episode, "Is This a Crazy Idea?" that aired on Wednesday Oct 30. I'm running a follow up Q&A each Friday in November, and if you’re loving it, I’ll keep going - but to do so I do need YOUR questions, thoughts, and ideas about that week’s episode! Here’s how it works - fo…
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5 Real Wedding Scenarios: "Is this a crazy idea?"
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These listener scenarios that may seem a bit crazy on the surface … but in reality offer a great chance to maximize the quality AND the value of your wedding celebration! As you’re putting together plans for your wedding, there are endless creative opportunities for you to deploy a unique, offbeat solution to what may seem like a standard wedding c…
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#66 - Join us for this powerful episode with Sara Artemisia as we dive into the potent portal time of Samhain when the veils between worlds thin. We’ll explore how our words and intentions are incredibly powerful right now, and the importance of connecting with the multidimensional, high-vibrational green beings of healing we call the plants. In th…
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Communication Issues, Wedding Reception Floor Plan & More Wedding Q&A
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This week on the Wedding Planning Podcast, tune in for my thoughts on some high-stakes wedding planning situations, including: Addressing communication issues with your fiance and fostering a spirit of compromise, Pro's & con's of a blank space venue with more versus less "do it yourself" requirements, Competing visions for stocking our bar, Ideal …
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A Designer Wedding Dress ... at a fraction of the designer price tag!
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Access a curated collection of second-hand designer gowns & expert stylists at a fraction of the designer price tag! Loved Twice Bridal was created to take the guesswork out of shopping online for a second hand, designer wedding dress. You’ll have access to an experienced team of stylists who are available to answer all of your questions, so that y…
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Affordable Centerpiece Ideas & DIY Wedding Flower Tips
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Looking for easy & affordable alternatives to hiring a professional florist ($$$$$) to decorate your wedding reception, table centerpieces, and bouquets? You're in the right place! In today's show, we’re going to discuss a creative variety of affordable wedding table decoration ideas. We're also going to review some actionable tips for doing your o…
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What to Look For in Your Wedding Venue Contract
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Today’s convo is a wedding planning strategy GEM! We’re going to cover every single last little thing that should be included within your wedding venue contract. If you’ve already booked a venue and signed a contract, I’d suggest pulling out your actual document & sticking around for today's convo to be sure that all the key items are addressed. Yo…
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Witchy Herbcraft for Samhain and Halloween with Selena Fox
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#65 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Rev. Selena Fox on Nature spirituality and connecting with the magical aspects of herbs long associated with Samhain and Halloween. In this episode, Selena shares beautiful wisdom on plant allies of the season such as Mugwort in experiences of inner vision, Mullein when lighting ceremonial bonfires, a…
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We all know that having a detailed WEDDING DAY TIMELINE is critical to keeping the day organized, and flowing stress-free. The problem is that lots of us get incredibly overwhelmed by the process because, well, it’s really damn overwhelming! Today I’m going to highlight some of the top mistakes I see couples make as they’re building out their weddi…
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Plant Magic for Young Green Witches with Robin Rose Bennett
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#64 - Do you know a young green witch or budding herbalist? So often I hear adults who discovered herbalism later in life say they wish they knew about the magic and medicine of plants when they were young. Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbalist and Writer Robin Rose as she shares about the joys and practical tips for helping kids (and…
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8 Easy Ways to Save $3,650 on Your Wedding
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Our goal this week on the Wedding Planning Podcast? To save YOU $3,650 on your final wedding bill! We could literally talk for hours about all the pretty things you see on Pinterest & Instagram that do not HAVE to be a part of your wedding celebration. In the interest of time, I’ve chosen EIGHT wedding elements that I would suggest skipping - or sc…
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A Fresh Look at Wedding Etiquette & "Rules"
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Are you drowning in wedding "etiquette guidelines"? Everyone has an opinion on invitation wording, cash bars, inviting kids, wedding day transportation, and what traditions absolutely SHOULD be included in the wedding day. There’s nothing like planning a wedding to suddenly have everyone you’ve ever known come out of the woodwork with their opinion…
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Claim Your Free "Engagement Starter Kit" Mini-Planning Package!
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Believe it or not, there is a specific formula to experiencing a streamlined, stress-free wedding planning journey - and it has just 3 KEY INGREDIENTS. Today in Part One of the Wedding Planning Podcast Engagement Starter Kit, you’re going to discover the FIRST KEY to streamlined, stress-free wedding planning. And what we’re talking about today can …
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Your wedding gift registry is the perfect opportunity to upgrade your home & your lifestyle with practical gifts that you need and will use in the years to come. Tune in for an essential guide to creating a killer wedding gift registry including: Deciding what items to include and ... Items NOT to include on your registry, Various lifestyle "catego…
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Ep 111: Vanessa Wright - Midlife Mastery: Balancing Motherhood, Money & Me-Time
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Vanessa Wright, certified life coach, author, and homeschooling mom of three, shares her transformative journey from burnout to building a thriving 6-figure coaching business. Discover how her signature FLOW self-care framework not only changed her life but also became the key to unlocking wealth and well-being for her midlife mom clients. In this …
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Listening to Earth and Soul with Leah Rampy
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#63 – Have you ever experienced connecting with an Anam Cara, or soul friend in Nature? Join us for a wonderful conversation with writer and speaker Leah Rampy on the invitation to reconnect with the beauty, awe, and wonder of the world in these edge times that we now find ourselves in. In this episode, Leah shares about the Celtic term Anam Cara w…
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10 Discussion Points to Review With Your Wedding Planner
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A top-notch Wedding Planner / Day-Of-Coordinator is essential for any smooth and seamless wedding celebration. Today on the Wedding Planning Podcast, we’re reviewing 10 KEY POINTS to discuss with your planner so that you’re both on the same page and ready to tackle any planning, logistic, or execution challenges that may arise. A sampling of these …
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Creative Catering, Food & Drink Options for Your Wedding Reception
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Lucky for us, there are literally endless creative ways to treat your guests to a unique food & drink experience on your wedding day. In today’s BONUS WORKSHOP, we’re going to explore exactly how to: Conceptualize & research what to serve, Smart money-saving tips that many couples miss, And even some "do it yourself" options if you’re looking to ge…
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Dress Alterations, Styling & Accessories, Post-Wedding Preservation & More
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Today on the Wedding Planning Podcast, we’re doing a thorough review of wedding dress alterations, styling & accessories, & post-wedding preservation ideas, and so much more. Our conversation covers the dress alterations process in detail, including pricing, money-saving tips, a timeline for when to get started, and alternative options for having y…
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How to Advocate For Your Wedding Vision & Top Priorities
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This week's featured wedding planning meeting is an overview of how to formulate a detailed wedding vision - and equally as important, learning how to articulate and advocate for that vision with those who are helping you plan. Here's an overview of the specific scenario we'll be discussing: "How can we reign in our wedding planner? Our venue inclu…
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The Ultimate Engagement Checklist | 10 Things To Do First
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Today I’m sharing AN ULTIMATE ENGAGEMENT CHECKLIST, including 10 key "to-do's" to launch your wedding planning journey into action. CONGRATULATIONS! The days & weeks after saying "YES!" are a whirlwind of fun & excitement ... From sharing the news with your loved ones, flashing that ring every chance you get, and dreaming of cakes and dresses, you'…
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Flower Essences for Pets and Animal Companions with Kathleen Aspenns
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#62 – Have you ever considered giving flower essences to your pet? Join us for a wonderful conversation with Nature Intuitive Kathleen Aspenns on how to support our beloved animal companions with flower essences. In this episode, Kathleen shares wisdom on specific flower essences that can support pets with various challenges such as separation anxi…
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From Overwhelmed & Discouraged to DREAM WEDDING ... How We Did It
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"When the initial excitement settled, we felt like planning an entire wedding seemed really expensive, overwhelming, and exhausting." Let me back up ... My now-husband John proposed in the summer of 2009, at the end of a 3-week trip we took through Europe. We were in Paris - our last stop - and we waited for hours to get to the lower platform of th…
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A universal truth? Your wedding day will FLY BY. Having a well-thought out, well-planned WEDDING DAY TIMELINE is critical to keeping the day organized, and flowing stress free. In this featured episode of the Wedding Planning Podcast, we’re actually reviewing & creating two separate timelines: The DAY-OF TIMELINE, including all the events between w…
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Affordable + Personalized Reception Entertainment Ideas
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If you’re looking for some CREATIVE + AFFORDABLE wedding reception entertainment options that go way beyond dinner, drinks & dancing, then this wedding planning workshop is perfect for you! Today’s wedding receptions feature creative entertainment ideas that are increasingly more personalized, more interactive, and more representative of your value…
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Expert Insights on Your DREAM HONEYMOON with Susan from Susan's Travel Services
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Today on the Wedding Planning Podcast, we’re joined by a very special guest and friend of the show, Susan from Susan’s Travel Services. Tune in for Susan's detailed process for planning the honeymoon of your dreams, including insider travel advice about flights, destinations, travel upgrades, and even her list of top travel mistakes to avoid. We co…
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Communicating with Trees with Kara Daniels
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#61 – Join us for an amazing conversation with interspecies communicator Kara Daniels on how to communicate with trees. In this episode, Kara shares key insights on how tree communication can benefit us as individuals and as a collective in connection with the Earth. She also offers wisdom on gifts and honoring practices for working with trees in o…
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5 Easy Steps to Choosing Your Wedding Colors
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Great news - you don’t need to be a professional designer or natural-born artist to select a beautiful & cohesive color palette for your wedding celebration. Today on the Wedding Planning Podcast, we’re running through 5 easy steps for choosing the colors to incorporate into your rehearsal, ceremony & reception. I also have a bonus rundown of the t…
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Compromising on a $10,000 Honeymoon & All or Nothing Guest List
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The theme of this week's show is COMPROMISE. We're exploring the importance of being on the same page with respect to finances, how you spend your free time, and of course, the ability to COMPROMISE - whether it's about your honeymoon or your wedding guest list. Tune in for so much more! I’m looking for new stories from you about your engagement, w…
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"We Ditched the Traditions & Made Our Wedding Truly Personal" - A Real Bride's Planning Roadmap
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Meet special guest Emma, who’s here to share the highlights, unique elements, and planning challenges from their beautiful wedding celebration at Hilton Lake Las Vegas. In this special episode, you'll hear lots more from Emma on: The pros of having NO wedding party Celebrating over a 3-day weekend in their hometown The endless benefits of a very ch…
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When Things Go Terribly Wrong ... Preparing for Unforeseen Wedding Mishaps
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A LOT of our energy during the wedding planning process is centered around the fear that things will go wrong, and how we can avoid and prevent minor mistakes - and major disasters - on our wedding day. I’ve been deeply involved with weddings for over a decade, and candidly, it’s a universal truth - no matter how much you plan and prep and delegate…
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Ancestral Connections to Plants and Place with Shereen Öberg
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#60 – Join us for a wonderful conversation with Yoga Teacher, Chinese Medicine Practitioner, & Acupuncturist Shereen Öberg on Earth wisdom and recognizing how we are part of Nature, and Nature is part of us. In this episode, Shereen shares about the strength of her grandmother growing up in Nature in the mountains, and how her grandmother offered k…
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Ep 112: Heather Barber - Building Wealth Through Resilience
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Join us on this episode of "How Does She Do It?" as Kara Flowers interviews Heather Barber, the entrepreneurial powerhouse behind Queen of Wraps. Heather shares her inspiring journey from starting her first business at 23 to owning five successful companies. Learn how she navigated economic downturns, balanced motherhood, and discovered the keys to…
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Hosting, Etiquette & Planning Tips for an Unforgettable Bridal Shower / Wedding Shower
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There are countless unique ways to celebrate your wedding / bridal shower (that don't involve sitting around and playing awkward games with your female friends & relatives!). In this week's episode of the Wedding Planning Podcast, we're giving the "traditional" wedding shower some much-needed updates. Listen in for creative + modern twists that you…
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Crafting Your Wedding Vows, Featuring "The Vow Whisperer" | Tanya Pushkine
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Today on the Wedding Planning Podcast, we’re joined by a very special guest, Tanya Pushkine from The Vow Whisperer. Tanya offers professional vow writing support, officiant services, and even wedding ceremony production support, including public speaking coaching. Tanya will guide you through exactly how to put your heart into words, resulting in c…
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Maximizing Your Time at a Wedding Fair / Bridal Expo
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Would you volunteer to host a party for 40 people and then rush out to the store with no menu planned & no shopping list? No way! You’d sit down and plan out what everyone was going to bring, make a menu of app's & drinks, look up some recipes, and then make a detailed list of exactly what you need to buy. So why on earth would you head out to a WE…
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Streamline + Simplify: Wedding Transportation, 2 Receptions, Hosting A Multi-Event Wedding Weekend
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STREAMLINE + SIMPLIFY has been a tagline for the WPP literally since I created the show way back in 2015. (Look closely, it's even on our old logo!) Not only are these two of my favorite words in the English language - that I try and live by in ALL aspects of my life - more specifically, they perfectly summarize my approach to wedding planning. Eve…
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Creating your wedding reception seating chart can QUICKLY become one of wedding planning’s biggest pains. Between crazy family members, divorces, step-parents, hook-up’s gone wrong, introverts, extroverts and lots of alcohol - your seating chart can quickly begin to feel like a jigsaw puzzle from hell. This week on the Wedding Planning Podcast, we’…
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Indigo Initiations from Seed to Cloth: The power of listening to plants with Justine Aldersey-Williams
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#59 – Have you ever tried the ancient skill of listening to plants through your fingertips? I loved connecting with botanical textile dyer Justine Aldersey-Williams on the initiatory journey she experienced while growing her own pair of jeans from seeds into cloth. In this episode, Justine shares about her mythic field-to-fashion creation process a…
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Last Minute Wedding Planning Checklist | 1-2 weeks before your wedding
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Today we're doing a detailed review of critical LAST MINUTE wedding details that you’ll want to stay on top of in the 1-2 weeks leading up to your wedding day. Even if your wedding is still months away, this show is perfect for you to proactively make notes about some of the things you can anticipate in those final weeks before the big day! A detai…
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Anticipate These Eight Wedding Planning "Blind Spots"
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Save yourself piles of unwanted stress when you proactively anticipate these 8 wedding planning "blind spots"! Over the past 8 years of producing the Wedding Planning Podcast, one of my favorite pieces of feedback from you is some variation of, “WOW, we never would have even thought of that!” I love sharing wedding planning ideas and strategies tha…
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Creating a simple, info-packed WEDDING WEBSITE is the easiest, most hassle free way to easily share information with your wedding guests. Join me today for a detailed wedding planning workshop on exactly how to create an amazing wedding website - zero technical skills required! To get started, choose your wedding website design from an incredible c…
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Ep 110: Dr. Erin King-Mullins - From Surgeon to CEO: Thriving as a Mom of 5
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Join us for an inspiring episode of "How Does She Do It?" as we sit down with the incredible Dr. Erin King-Mullins. From humble beginnings to becoming a double board-certified powerhouse in general and colorectal surgery, Dr. King-Mullins shares her journey of balancing a thriving medical career with being a devoted mother of five. Discover how she…
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Beautiful & Affordable SAVE THE DATES + WEDDING INVITATIONS
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Affordable & beautiful Save the Date announcements and wedding invitations - how hard can that be?? Well, if you’ve spent 3 hours on a Saturday getting lost down the rabbit hole of 9 different wedding invitation websites, then you know that finding a practical solution that fits your style and your budget is much easier said than done. Today I’m sh…
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Ep 109: Brandi Searcy - From Lab Coat to CEO: Turning Health Struggles into Wealth
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Discover how pharmaceutical researcher Brandi Searcy leveraged her science smarts and personal health battles to build two thriving businesses. In this episode, Brandi pulls back the curtain on her unconventional path from the lab to entrepreneurship, sharing how she's using her expertise to help women solve complex health issues and build wealth a…
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My inbox is full of questions about Wedding Flowers!
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This week, I have an inbox full of your wedding flower questions to share! I also put together a list of the top wedding flower mistakes that I see couples make, to further help guide you to "DIY wedding flower SUCCESS". Today we're reviewing: How much should 5 relatively simple bouquets cost? I’m being quoted over $1200, which feels so ridiculous.…
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Ep 108: Laurie Morse - Optimize Your Well-Being for Personal and Professional Success
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Discover how to optimize your well-being and elevate your personal and professional life! Licensed acupuncturist Laurie Morse shares her extensive knowledge of Chinese medicine to help you unlock your body's innate potential. Learn her practical framework to cultivate health, empowerment, abundance, and fulfillment on a cellular level. Laurie guide…
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Ep 107: Myriah Wallace - From Seizure to Success: Myriah's Leadership Journey
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Myriah Wallace, a licensed therapist turned leadership coach, shares her incredible journey from a shocking epilepsy diagnosis during her first day in a dream leadership role to now empowering women leaders to excel with confidence. Discover how vulnerability, servant leadership, and boundary-setting can skyrocket your team's morale and your own ca…
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Maximizing Quality + Value of Your WEDDING FLOWERS
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Wedding flowers are high on the list of things that couples rate "not very" to "not at all" important to them. So why spend thousands of dollars on elaborate, professional floral centerpieces and bouquets? There are so many simple, beautiful & affordable alternatives - Today I have an 5-part formula for you to follow so that you can have beautiful,…
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Ep 106: Adriana Baer - Authentic Communication: The Key to Influence and Success
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In this powerful episode, Adriana Baer shares her transformative journey from a successful theater director to a sought-after high-performance coach. After 20 years in the arts, Adriana found herself grappling with burnout and the challenges of balancing her career with motherhood. Through this experience, she discovered her true calling: helping o…
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